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Dougal is a web developer, and a "Developer Emeritus" for the WordPress platform. When he's not coding PHP, Perl, CSS, JavaScript, or whatnot, he spends time with his wife, three children, a dog, and a cat in their Atlanta area home.

Oh man… Just like someone else said: inline autocomplete was the ONLY thing I was missing from IE. Missing so much that I actually was going to stick with IE because of the time, typing, and clicking it saved me. Not anymore. Thanks dude!

Geez, that’s the reason why I stick with Mozilla, because a lot of simple but yet very usefull functions are not enabled in Firefox by default. I also think it’s ridiculous that you can not enable them besides using the cryptic about:config interface. Even in Mozilla a user can easily enable or disable autocomplete in the preferences.

It important to note here that you social security number will be stored if you use it for logging in somewhere. Unless you internet banking-provider or whatever has included an “autocomplete = “off” -tag in the htm-code.

In other words, to prevent identity theft, autocomplete should be used with care.

Is there anyway to enable the dropdown history list while preventing it from opening automatically? That is, you could type in your URL without seeing the history, but if you needed it, you could click on the dropdown history button and see the possible completions?

Can somebody PLEASE tell me how to turn off this incredibly annoying feature. I have set everything I can find in about:config to false including the items mentioned here. I’m using Firefox 2. If I can’t get rid of this feature I am giving up on Firefox. It is *that* annoying to me. A feature that gets in my way is more annoying than three I want but don’t have because I *hate* software doing what I don’t want it to do.

To anyone else who googled in here looking for ways to turn off the autofill in the google toolbar in Firefox 2.x. It turns out to be very simple. Right click on the tool bar (or context thingy on a Mac) and untick show suggestions. Not that you’d ever know that without trying it, of course.

I can’t get this to work with google.com either. It’s worked in previous versions of Firefox–could Google have changed something to prevent the autocomplete, perhaps in order to boost gmail (since that’s what I get if I just hit g)?

For those who changed urlbar.autoFill to true but still don’t see anything: make sure that urlbar.maxRichResults is not set to 0. (The default is 12, which you get by right-clicking on the setting and choosing ‘reset’).